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FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) software written in Java.
CSS Rant - 1 year later - Momoro Machine
A global h2 style probably isn’t going to last more than a month before everyone starts changing it inline or by id. This means that global styles end up getting in the way 8 months down the line.
CSS Rant -- 5 tips for rails developer sanity - Momoro Machine
Fuck acronyms, really
Revisiting the hidden cost of features - Momoro Machine
Lots of hidden costs.
Should You Use JavaScript Library CDNs? « Lickity Split
sing Google’s JavaScript Library CDN comes with a 1/3 of a second tax on missing. (Note that a tax like this applies to opening connections to a any new host: JavaScript Library CDNs, advertisers, analytics and visitor tracking, etc. This is why you should try to reduce the number of different hostnames you serve content from.)
I Have No Talent // RailsTips by John Nunemaker
I am sick of hearing people say, “Oh, I love your code, I wish I could do that.” You can. The only reason you can’t is because you don’t practice enough.
nakajima's slidedown at master - GitHub
Generate syntax-highlighted slides from Markdown
How everyone is inserting technical debt in their applications | Plataforma Tecnologia Blog
This means Basecamp migrated from the first Rails release up to the edge one. So how come people say so frequently how hard is to update their applications from Rails 2.1 to Rails 2.2? And the answer is simple: plugins.
ActiveModel: Make Any Ruby Object Feel Like ActiveRecord « Katz Got Your Tongue?
Rails 2.3 has a ton of really nice functionality locked up in monolithic components. I’ve posted quite a bit about how we’ve opened up a lot of that functionality in ActionPack, making it easier to reuse the router, dispatcher, and individual parts of ActionController. ActiveModel is another way we’ve exposed useful functionality to you in Rails 3.
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All
Joe Programmer: That guy is such an asshole.
SDL Game Tutorials
The aim of these tutorials is to show budding programmers how they can turn their creative desires into fully fledged games. The tutorials found here will cover a variety of topics and run through basics, intermediate, advanced, and theory based topics.
MailStyle: A HTML Email Plugin for Ruby on Rails | Purify Blog
MailStyle allows you to write the css for your html emails as you normally would, then writes the styles inline when you send your emails. It also makes sure that your image paths are absolute rather than relative.
jimweirich's re at master - GitHub
Using the Re library, that regular expression can be built incrementaly from smaller, easier to understand expressions.
acunote's template_inliner at master - GitHub
Template inliner avoids the problem when to render a large list of objects,
Play framework ★ Home
Finally a Java framework made by Web developers. Discover a clean alternative to bloated enterprise Java stacks. Play focuses on developer productivity and targets RESTful architectures.
Musings on Paginating Chronological Content | CSS-Tricks
We say “back in time”, and “back” feel like “left” to me, not right. So let’s break that standard.
sinsiliux's Blueprints at master - GitHub
Another replacement for factories and fixtures that focuses on being DRY and making developers type as little as possible.
wkrte - Project Hosting on Google Code
WKRTE is a jQuery rich text editor based on lwrte by plandem.
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - Bret Taylor's blog
After some deliberation, we decided to implement a "schema-less" storage system on top of MySQL rather than use a completely new storage system. This post attempts to describe the high-level details of the system.